Plenty has been written and spoken about that new virus the world is trying to keep at bay; measures to control its spread have slowed or halted many activities across the world.
As usual, though, the land and its creatures don’t wait.
The cows need to be milked; the hogs and horses and sheep and beef cattle have to be fed. And, when the time comes, the seeds need to be sown into the soil’s richness.
People need to be fed and the farmers will continue to fulfill that need even as meetings, games and even schools are shuttered. That’s what farmers do.
Perhaps this might be a good time for society to take a step back, slow down and take a look at what’s around us. That could be especially true in the rural countryside, which offers such daily richness in its seasons.
The basketball games might not be played, but all that must go on across the rural landscape will continue. Sometimes, a pause to make note of that — whether forced upon us by a spreading virus or by our own volition — is a good thing.
Here, we’ll plan to take that time to look, listen, smell and touch the land a little more than we did before we ever heard about that virus.
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